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<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> John W. <jbw292002@gmail.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> David Green <davegreen84@yahoo.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Cc:</SPAN></B> Peace Discuss <peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Mon, July 26, 2010 6:56:08 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [Peace-discuss] Everybody Loves Me Baby<BR></FONT><BR>
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<DIV>Wow! I've always hated Don McLean's music, never came across this song. Who knew that he was right up there as a songwriter with Bob Dylan? I wonder why this one didn't become more popular with the anti-war crowd?</DIV>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 6:49 PM, David Green <SPAN dir=ltr><<A href="mailto:davegreen84@yahoo.com" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:davegreen84@yahoo.com">davegreen84@yahoo.com</A>></SPAN> wrote:</DIV>
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<DIV>Don McLean wrote this song in 1971, the same year he wrote the obviously more popular but not nearly as good "American Pie." The satirical allegory is intended:</DIV>
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<DIV>Fortune has me well in hand, armies 'wait at my command<BR>My gold lies in a foreign land buried deep beneath the sand<BR>The angels guide my ev'ry tread, my enemies are sick or dead<BR>But all the victories I've led haven't brought you to my bed<BR><BR>CHORUS:<BR>You see, everybody loves me, baby, what's the matter with you?<BR>Won'tcha tell me what did I do to offend you?<BR><BR>Now the purest race I've bred for thee to live in my democracy<BR>And the highest human pedigree awaits the first-born boy baby<BR>And my face on ev'ry coin engraved, the anarchists are all enslaved<BR>My own flag is forever waved by the grateful people I have saved<BR><BR>CHORUS:<BR>You see, everybody loves me, baby, what's the matter with you?<BR>Won'tcha tell me what did I do to offend you?<BR><BR>Now, no land is beyond my claim when land is seized in the people's name<BR>By evil men who rob and maim, if war is hell, I'm not to blame!<BR>Why, you can't blame me, I'm
Heaven's child, I'm the second son of Mary mild<BR>And I'm twice removed from Oscar Wilde, but he didn't mind, why, he just smiled<BR><BR>Yes, and the ocean parts when I walk through, and the clouds dissolve and the sky turns blue<BR>I'm held in very great value by everyone I meet but you<BR>'cause I've used my talents as I could, I've done some bad, I've done some good<BR>I did a whole lot better than they thought I would so, c'mon and treat me like you should!<BR><BR>Because everybody loves me, baby, what's the matter with you?<BR>tell me what did I do to offend you? <whoo, yeah!><BR><BR>Everybody loves me, baby, what's the matter with you?<BR>tell me what did I do to offend you?<BR><BR>Yeah, everybody loves me, baby, what's the matter with you?<BR>tell me what did I do to offend you?</DIV></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
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